Count me among those that found nothing wrong with reporting that prostitutes were being killed. It’s important for prostitutes to know that they are being targeted, and in my community the profession of a person murdered is often mentioned in the headlines, no matter what the profession is. Calling someone a “teacher” doesn’t mean that the person isn’t “human” anymore than calling someone a “prostitute” makes that person anything other than human. OVERANALYZING. You’re TRYING to find something to bitch about.
If there were any justice in this world…
I don’t know. At what point do they graduate from being young women to being prostitutes?
Fuck me, the Sun is a disgrace.
Bloody hell - three bodies now found, and another woman has disappeared over the weekend.
The police are now saying that a 4th girl is missing…
:dubious: No ethical, responsible journalist in the world would accept that as a general rule of conduct.
No, we’re seeing something which we find very distasteful. (FWIW, one of the victims was at school with a number of friends of mine, either in the same year or one below.)
That just demonstrates the conspiratorial depth of the cover-up. Not only are the media colluding to hide the circumstances of the minister’s death, they’re all pretending he didn’t die at all, and is still carrying out his duties as if he were perfectly healthy.
Of course, this is the Irish government we’re talking about here, so maybe it’s legitimate that nobody noticed the difference between a live official and a dead official. 
I agree with this post. From line one of the article, the ‘prostitute’ angle just seemed to be a bunch of ‘let’s whip up some modern-day Jack-The-Ripper hysteria’. (Evidently, its good for the circulation and it gets the blood flowing. :dubious: )
Not to be crass, but when they started accepting payment for sex?
That’s not a reporter’s job. Reporters don’t eulogize crime victims in news stories, no matter how tragic their deaths may be. Your suggestion wouldn’t even be appropriate for a feature story, really.
The responsibility of reporters is to relay the details of events and the people involved in them in an impartial fashion. If you want a touching remembrance of the victims, take out a full-page ad and do it yourself.
Heh, you’ve not read many British tabloids then!
Steve Huff has managed to be fairly impartial in his entry on the crimes. He touches on the idea that there are more women/girls missing, and that it is thought that it really is a serial killer coming out of dormancy.
So they are NO LONGER WOMEN? Don’t be deliberately obtuse. They started being prostitutes then, but they never stopped being female human beings.
So it’s an either/or situation? :dubious:
Fifth woman missing, according to the latest headlines.
At what point does it become useful to point out that the person is apparently targeting women working as prostitutes?
I’d say it’s well before five.
It seems that one of the missing women has now made contact with a friend.
No one’s arguing that. However, pointing out that they’re women isn’t nearly as helpful as pointing out that they were all working as prostitutes.
I mean, hell, we could point out they’re all carbon-based life forms who breathe oxygen, but that’s not really a distinguishing characteristic, now is it?
I knew, I KNEW, that if I didn’t include the original quote in the exchange some fucking jackass would come along and take it out of context. The fact that it was someone who took place in it is entirely unsurprising. YES, fuckface, someone is arguing that: you, inadvertently, because what you responded to was this:
And you said “when they started taking money for sex”. In other words, at some point they “graduated from”, that is, STOPPED BEING, young women, and became something else. I assumed you were being deliberately obtuse, but now I can tell it’s not an act.
Wow, that’s a lot of vitriol for an Internet message board.
I’m looking at this in terms of what information is most important to the story. The fact that all of them were employed as prostitutes is a more important fact TO THE STORY than their status as women. I’m not making any sort of moral judgment, I’m just looking at the information that’s relevant to the story.
Oh, what fun. The Offenderati are out in full regalia, a tempest is brewing in a teapot, and our very own Ensign is well into a good ol’ meltdown.
Me? If someone was targeting my profession, I’d sure as heck want to know about it. Let the Offenderati gnash their teeth and wail to the heavens; I’m sure most of the prostitutes feel the same way as I would about being given potentially life-saving knowledge.
- "A local serial killer has killed 5 doctors, all in private practice. Evidently the killer waits outside of their places of business and ambushes them after all other employees have left for the night. All doctors are advised to have a heightened sense of their surroundings and not to travel alone if they can help it. "
- “They’re not doctors! They’re human beiiiiiiiings! You’re robbing them of their humanity! Oh, the injustice! The horror of an occupational agnomen! Ayieeeeeeeee!”